Mayday (2003)
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
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Episode 1 - Lockerbie Disaster (Pan Am 103)
Release Date: 2009-11-04Shortly after leaving London Heathrow airport in December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded above Lockerbie , Scotland killing 270 people. Investigators soon discovered that a bomb in the forward cargo compartment had taken down the plane.
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Episode 2 - Sight Unseen (1996 Charki Dadri mid-air collision)
Release Date: 2009-11-11Find out what went wrong when a Kazakhstan Airlines jet and a Saudi Airways plane collided in the worst mid-air crash in aviation history, killing 349 people on November 12, 1996.
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Episode 3 - Scratching the Surface (China Airlines Flight 611)
Release Date: 2009-11-18Rescuers have to look to the past to solve the riddle of Flight 611, a China Airlines 747 that disappeared 20 minutes after taking off.
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Episode 4 - Blown Apart (Partnair Flight 394)
Release Date: 2009-11-25On September 8, 1989, Partnair Flight 94, a charter from Oslo to Hamburg, suddenly begins to dive from 22 thousand feet. The aging propeller plane eventually crashes into the sea, killing all 55 people on board.
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Episode 5 - Operation Babylift (1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Release Date: 2009-12-02Near the close of the Vietnam War, the United States launched Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from war torn Vietnam. On April 4th 1975, the first Babylift flight ended in tragedy when a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying 314 passengers crashed during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138.
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Episode 6 - Falling Fast (Tuninter Flight 1153)
Release Date: 2009-12-09On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153 runs out of fuel and ditches into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 people. It ran out of fuel because a fuel gauge for a different type of aircraft had been installed, misleading the crew about how much fuel was on board.
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Episode 7 - Flight 574 Lost (Adam Air Flight 574)
Release Date: 2009-12-16On January 1st 2007, a Boeing 737-400 crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi. The subsequent investigation raised deep concerns about the safety record of the Indonesian airline industry.
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Episode 8 - Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Release Date: 2009-12-16On 31 October 1994, American Eagle Flight 4184 falls out of the sky, killing all 68 people on board. The crash was caused by ice developing on the wing in a manner that the on-board deicing system could not remove.